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upstream: clarify conditions for UpdateHostkeys
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OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 9cba714cf6aeed769f998ccbe8c483077a618e27
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djmdjm committed Oct 8, 2020
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.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" $OpenBSD: ssh_config.5,v 1.335 2020/10/07 02:18:45 djm Exp $
.Dd $Mdocdate: October 7 2020 $
.\" $OpenBSD: ssh_config.5,v 1.336 2020/10/08 00:31:05 djm Exp $
.Dd $Mdocdate: October 8 2020 $
.Dt SSH_CONFIG 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
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This option allows learning alternate hostkeys for a server
and supports graceful key rotation by allowing a server to send replacement
public keys before old ones are removed.
.Pp
Additional hostkeys are only accepted if the key used to authenticate the
host was already trusted or explicitly accepted by the user.
host was already trusted or explicitly accepted by the user, the host was
authenticated via
.Cm UserKnownHostsFile
(i.e. not
.Cm GlobalKnownHostsFile )
and the host was authenticated using a plain key and not a certificate.
.Pp
.Cm UpdateHostKeys
is enabled by default if the user has not overridden the default
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